Adult Conversions from No-Religion to Religion

[Zzyzx]

In other threads there has been discussion of the matter of adults converting from Agnosticism or Atheism or Non-Religion to Christianity.

Does anyone have any information about:

1. The number of adults who become religious (or convert to religion) (or join a church) from being non-religious? (Not from one religion to another)

2. The number of adults becoming religious (or join a church) compared to the number of people who enter religion (or join a church) as children

3. The number of adults entering religion (or joining a church) vs. the number leaving religion (or leaving a church) ?

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[katiej49]

In other threads there has been discussion of the matter of adults converting from Agnosticism or Atheism or Non-Religion to Christianity.

Does anyone have any information about:

1. The number of adults who become religious (or convert to religion) from being non-religious? (Not from one religion to another)

2. The number of adults becoming religious compared to the number of people who enter religion as children

3. The number of adults entering religion vs. the number leaving religion?

this would be an impossible task. true faith is in the heart and you cant find a poll on that! besides, what would it prove? i came to faith as a child. as i've gotten older my faith has at time been a struggle, a burden (due to some very bad legalistic teaching and my own obsessive compulsive personality!).....its been a puzzle.......its grown!....my faith in my God is stronger than ever and I also have more questions than ever!

[achilles12604]

While this would be very interesting, it is a search for stats, and there is no clear question for debate. Moved to General Discussion.

[sledheavy]

In other threads there has been discussion of the matter of adults converting from Agnosticism or Atheism or Non-Religion to Christianity.

Does anyone have any information about:

1. The number of adults who become religious (or convert to religion) from being non-religious? (Not from one religion to another)

2. The number of adults becoming religious compared to the number of people who enter religion as children

3. The number of adults entering religion vs. the number leaving religion?

this would be an impossible task. true faith is in the heart and you cant find a poll on that! besides, what would it prove? i came to faith as a child. as i've gotten older my faith has at time been a struggle, a burden (due to some very bad legalistic teaching and my own obsessive compulsive personality!).....its been a puzzle.......its grown!....my faith in my God is stronger than ever and I also have more questions than ever!

Christianity is held together by it's believers.

The amount of believers, their personal belief systems, their choices as believers, these are all statistics which include faith and can be polled.

It would also prove that faith is stronger at different points in age. Hence a child would have it easy not questioning their faith when they have the help of their parents to back them up.

Other factors would be someones personal choice to choose such things as religious events, religious schooling, etc. rather than secular events or schooling to harden their beliefs. Being that my religious choices led me to become athiest, that would be a variable on the opposite side as well.

A common analogy is "a democrat when you're young a republican when you're old."

Most generics find faith at the later years of their life. Most people I work with state they believe in god for reasons they can't explain. They don't practice it, they don't teach it, they really won't consider it till they need to.

The topic is certainly an interesting proposal.